Implementation/Tactical

Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom all the inputs you’ll need to establish your food forest, there is one that could break the bank more than any other. I’m talking about the sheer amount of plants you’ll need in order to grow your perennial permaculture paradise. The $$ numbers can be brutal when you do some math on the plants […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who is constantly juggling various personal, professional, and homestead tasks, there’s one permaculture principle that’s proven to be incredibly important in my day-to-day life. It’s the principle of ‘the least effort for the most effect.’ Essentially it’s this idea that you want to work in a way where you get great results for […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesLet’s say you have a wooded property and want to grow food in the woods. However, you want to do it in a way that preserves as much of the forest as possible. I.e you want to minimize clearing and cutting down the trees but still be able to grow food. Is growing food in […]

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Reading Time: 6 minutesLet’s say you’ve designed your fruit tree guilds, and now it’s time to plant them on the site. The question is: how should you go about it? In the ideal world, you’d plant your entire food forest in one go – trees, shrubs, ground covers, the whole things. But let’s be real. Between the cost […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesStory time… When I worked as a geologist in Australia in the 2010s, I frequently traveled across the country. On one occasion, while driving through the mountainous agricultural area of New South Wales, we unexpectedly encountered a person wearing a hazmat suit on the side of the road. At first, I thought that the whole […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou’ll probably hate me for saying this, but I think it’s true… “Stuff you do in the garden” is only 20% of a rich harvest. The other 80% is fixing your soil.. Because even the most inexperienced gardens can grow an abundance of healthy veggies with almost no effort – when they have super-quality soil. […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf there is one thing I can’t get enough of, it’s compost for my garden. I could use tons and tons of it if I had an endless supply. As you already know, compost is almost always the answer to any soil-related problem in permaculture and regenerative agriculture. Soil is not fertile enough → add […]